VIDEO: You may see a new building — a tiny one — on the property of the Ridge Road Fire District’s Stoneridge Station. It’s a mini firehouse library stacked with resources for the community.
Firefighter Brian Shannon says due to the pandemic, many fire departments can’t do something they love: head out to classrooms to teach kids about fire safety.
“We should do some sort of library, some way to get our fire education out,” says Shannon.
This miniature firehouse is a “little library,” and inside is fire safety resources for the whole community. Replicated and built, by the way, to look just like the firehouse here on Stoneridge Drive. It’s a project three months in the making.
“It’s stuffed with fire safety books that were donated by organizations from across town,” says Shannon adding, fire safety never goes out of style.
“From ‘stop, drop & roll’, ‘stay low & go’, and know the ways out of your house,” he says.
Firefighter Dan Tucker says getting this literature out to neighbors is reading year-round.